"Don't install from untrusted sources" means "don't install things in your inbox, don't install things you downloaded of Gnutella, don't install random things on web pages".
Yeah, blah blah blah, getting something off Versiontracker is a calculated risk, and download-only distribution of commercial software doesn't guarantee someone hasn't hacked the d/l server.
But.
I know for a fact there are people in the Mac user base that install EVERY GODDAMN APP, just to see what happens. It's like they have some script to get the Versiontracker RSS feed and install every time it updates (then they bitch about it on the VT forum area). Most people I know don't wait a day for the early adopters to install patches. And so on, and so on. This is the sort of behavior that's common in the Mac community, and it's as foolish and dangerous as the Joe Sixpack install-the-screensaver-in-the-inbox behavior.
The modern computing reality requires a scratch monkey. That's just the way it is. Those who are about to install potentially untrusted software, we salute you.
If you can't afford a scratch monkey, just wait a couple days and read MacFixIt.com.
1. If you're sitting at the box, you might be able to 0wnz0r it. Same as for Linux, BSD, and Windows. 2. Regular folk should only install software from reasonably trusted sources.
I would assume that second point would be clear, given 10 years of watching Windows users open every last attachment that arrives in their inbox, while we sit at our Macs and laugh, but something tells me, probably not.
open up a blank tab in safari and type: x-man-page://some_command where some_command is the command you want to see. I get a man page in a terminal. In fact for any given URL registered on my box, I get the Right Thing(tm) happening.
I use the Default App pref pane (http://www.rubicode.com/Software/) and thus have pretty fine control over what happens when various URLs are clicked/activated. Well, I can't make new ones, something about the craptacular IE vestiges that control URLs by default, maybe, I'm not sure; but it seems trivial to get around this.
See many other posts, the complaints are spurious at best, and their motive seems highly disingenuous (Apple has the #1 player and the #1 music service, and doesn't do business with CNet, a noted PC-centric company).
I mean, 6 hours of battery life, OK... last time I flew more than 6 hours, I could plug things into things. Let's see CNet bash some laptops for not providing 20 hours of battery life, eh?
Jogging? Whatever, man. I can't make mine skip if I try. See other posts... it's a spurious argument.
Expensive? Yes but so are many other nice things. No one complains about a $500 video card. I mean, to CNet that's a -1 of 10 thing at worst, and easily explained away by framing a review with the "ultimate gaming machine" or similar moniker. Face it, nice things are expensive. Yay, capitalism.
The DAT thing? Again, it's for listening to music.. I'm not aware Apple ever marketed it - or even mentioned - other audio applications for the device. That's like complaining you can't store high-res audio on a Palm Pilot.
Choice in online music stores? OK, half credit for having a point, but WMA is not choice any more than Fairplay... but Fairplay lets me use my purchased music reasonably, whereas all current WMA solutions are highly restrictive.
1. Apple hasn't partnered with Cnet to sell their device via click-through, resulting in less revenue for CNet from the apparent #1 player. 2. Were Apple to increase in marketshare as a result of 1)the #1 portable music device and 2)the #1 online music store, we'd have to have people cover it more, potentially resulting in less coverage of Microsoft-based products. 3. Anyone can find something wrong with anything, and I have, and since I work at CNet and you don't, you have to listen to me. 4. Microsoft creates standards, not Apple. If Apple creates standards, or supports ones not approved by billg, we'll be back in the chaos of the 80's and early 90's. I can't go back to installing WinSock! I can't!! Buy WMA devices, please! 5. Ha ha, sucker, thanks for the ad impressions. Coming up next: 5 reasons why you shouldn't use Linux, Mac OS X, and/or Mozilla!
Panther installs and runs fine on my B&W G3, upgraded to G4 w/ Sonnettech and Radeon 7k. I'm pretty sure if something happened and I called Apple Support they'd laugh in my face, but until then, it's golden.
For many people email spam is largely transparent; I have a high-speed, unmetered connection (cable modem) and anti-spam protection (Apple Mail.app) so in my email, I see virtually no spam.
However the site that I run is hosted on MovableType through a commercial host. I have a metered limit on database queries and bandwidth. Excessive blog comment spamming could end up costing me money!
A new version of MT-Blacklist comes out today. Use it!
You must look at this from a realistic perspective.
1. The major record labels - meaning the people who control the content - will never release their "property" without DRM. If Apple wants to provide music online, it must do so at the whim of the content "owners". Hence, DRM. Otherwise iTMS is Napster v1, and we all know how that turned out.
As a matter of opinion, I find 'Fairplay' or whatever it is Apple calls its DRM method to be quite fair, to me. I can play all my music on my computers (laptop, desktop, work desktop) and devices (rev1 iPod), burn CDs, and so forth. I've been using iTMS since its inception, and have no complaints.
2. Apple has to balance their costs and resources, and the resources of their paying customers. Sure we all want uber-high-bitrate encodings. Remember that Apple has to push out all that data, and ensure the highest-possible success rate. I also assume they pay for their bandwidth, like everyone else. Moreover, many of their customers are probably still on dialup. In order to work, the experience has to be as close to instant as technologically possible. Like all things in technology, it's a balance. Until your uber-bitrate song fits in under a meg, it went with what it had that fit its requirements and needs.
Again, as a matter of opinion: P2P blows, people lie, allow bad rips, disconnect halfway through (mom's coming! quick, disconnect!), whatever.
3. The notion that one day this will all go away is a very fair criticism. So do the smart thing: burn to audio CD. You aren't prohibited (provided you don't try to turn that shiny G5 into a duplication studio). And getting around the DRM by re-encoding isn't all that hard (google it). iTunes enforces no DRM on user-ripped material, as WMP did at one point (could be turned off, IIRC). DRM applies only to content it re-sells.
1. Microsoft now has to spend as much of its time competing against itself as it does everyone else. (Quote: "With each version of Office it gets harder for Microsoft to move customers up," said Michael A. Silver, vice president and research director at the research and advisory firm Gartner Inc.)
DUH. Pretty much everyone admits this. If they never EOL'd anything, people would probably just stay on NT4 with Office 97 (assuming it works for them).
2. Microsoft thinks it offers more advanced, and usually better products, and offers metrics to prove those points.
DUH. In other news, Linux organizations (along with "grass-roots" sites like Slashdot) offer counter-points and different metrics of performance, value, and success.
In 10 words or less, "Microsoft practices marketing, others offer rebuttal."
How's the new Office if you're a home user with small email volume? Is it a compelling upgrade?
First, SETI must "play by the rules". It cannot point to government conspiracies and grainy photos as "proof" of ETI. It has so far turned up bupkis, precisely for this reason.
Second of all, are you saying the Drake Equation is crap? That there's simply nothing out there?
Read "The Borderlands Of Science" by Michael Shermer for further discussion about SETI and what sets it apart from the frothing conspiracy fools. In short, SETI is a shot in the dark, and based on a premise for which there is no proof - life on other worlds - but it is done in the same way we discovered germs or broke the sound barrier, by adhering to scientific principles.
First, and slightly OT, but that screen shot makes it look like I had better plan on a 19" monitor or greater. It was a tiny screen cap but the proportions of title bar to window contents make me think Microsoft has given up on the notion that a 15" screen should be usable. (See Also: Visual Studio.NET)
Anyway, this who "can't forward" thing might have nice side effects. I'd love it if documents on the hard drive could be flagged "do not forward", so my dad would stop pestering me about "what if I get a virus and it sends my Quicken files?"
This functionality was created to appease corporate America (to stop things ending up on InternalMemos.com, among other things) but it might have positive side effects for the home user.
..no one is posting any hard data, any more than he is. This post references actual numbers, but other than "what a freaking liar/what a misinformed idiot" no one is offering proof on the matter.
Smart playlists are worth it. Managing huge playlists is better, IMHO, in iTunes than any other player. If you have TONS of MP3, iTunes wins, once you get into its playlist management stuff hardcore.
I don't ever use visualizations; I like to listen to music, not watch it.:)
As far as shade mode, Apple seems to have decided that iconifying is the way to go. On a Mac, you can control it via the Dock menu and numerous 3rd-party plugins, which is for all practical purposes the same as WinAmp windowshade mode (whence last I used it, anyway). Synergy is an excellent menu extra for controlling iTunes.
Because of differences in UI philosophy, you can't get the "full" experience on Windows, and on a Mac it's the little things that matter, sometimes.
But from a scientific perspective, there is a strong correlation between The Power Of Positive Thinking(tm) and well-being.
You may have terminal cancer, but if you're thinking positive, you're more likely to: exercise, eat right, abstain from things like smoking and drinking, all that stuff. Moreover your body is more likely to produce its own happy enzymes and chemicals (endorphins, etc) than when you're depressed and morose (most likely because you're moving around, eating right, etc).
HOW you achieve this state of positive nature is up to you. As it happens, many people feel better as a result of prayer; and not prayer alone, but the sense of community and belonging that comes with it. Church gets you out of the house; you meet new people, who you probably identify with; you abstain from risky behavior.
Is it the force of God that helps, really? Well like you say, if it was conclusive, who needs faith? But for an secular atheist like me, I say "keep up with the faith", because no matter what you pray to, it almost certainly isn't going to harm. The fact is, it often helps. It may not cure cancer, but it may make living tolerable.
Well, the awful brushed metal appearance has been a GTK theme for as long as I can remember... Smart Playlists are essentially a kind of `select` statement.. and Rendezvous is an open standard with implementations on Linux.
All you're missing is the actual store/Fairplay encryption stuff. Maybe one day they'll release that?
I'm so glad that someone FINALLY had the balls to call The Steve on his evil marketing ploy. How dare he try to claim that Apple was somehow better, when every Slashdotter knows it's not!
(He won't give us the source for Aqua, see. We installed Red Hat the other day and are therefore qualified to fix all the bugs.)
At any rate: I just wish Apple would go away and stop competing. Trying to improve their hardware and software - and then selling it with such outrageous distortions - is bad, and hurts the industry. It really hurt my ego to think that some Photoshop dork has a better computer than I do. We can' t have that. Everyone knows Apple sucks. Er, suX0rs.
Benchmarks, really! Everyone knows they're crap. ATI had the balls to claim theirs was faster, when everyone knows nVidia rules!!!1! (Or was it the other way around? I forget.) As soon as the benchmarks said nVidia was faster, I threw that piece of crap ATI out of my machine and got the newest GeForce.
Apparently you've never wanted to play your music on any non-apple product without first expanding your files to 12x their original size, and then possibly having to re-compress them to another format.
Burning an audio CD from AAC is hardly a chore in iTunes. I trust you've used it?
I also imagine you've never had to deal with losing a hard disk full of all those precious songs and having to redownload and re-license them for your new machine because you can't just copy them over.
I call bullshit again. First of all, keeping regular backups is part of commonly accepted good computing practices. If you can't do that, it's hardly apple's fault. In this KB article - here - they tell you outright to backup your stuff.
Moreover: "redownload"? That's odd. In the same KB article, it says:
if your hard disk becomes damaged or you lose any of the music you've purchased, you'll have to buy any purchased music again to rebuild your library.
(emphasis mine)
Has Apple given you special dispensation for a hard drive crash, or are you just lying?
Second, I'm not sure what version of iTunes you're using, but when I relicensed my songs, it was as easy as entering my iTMS info in the little dialog. Boom, the machine is now licensed.
I won't debate on sound quality; people who have decided AAC sucks simply won't change their minds. My feeling it, it could be better, and eventually it will be. I will also ignore the implicit accusation that I'm somehow stupid, because my ear finds AAC acceptable.
Lastly, "the rest of us"? Provide solid numbers on this boycott, please.
Programmers know UI based on what they do as programmers.
Programmers need the 80-bazillion options Visual Studio requires, because Visual Studio is a tool for making other tools.
On the other hand, users don't need all those options (at least, for the average user). Users want a hammer, not a combination forge-lathe-grinder with optional fiberglass extruder.
The argument is constantly made, "What about 'power users' and people who really do need extra functionality?". Fine, OK: put that stuff "under the hood" and document its location and functionality. But don't put in a user config dialog with 27 tab groups, 40 options per tab, with an 'Advanced' button on each one.
In fairness, there's less and less of this. Windows programmers are starting to understand the value of simplicity, just like Mac programmers are starting to understand the value of "power user" options (the `defaults` command, for example).
Slashdot Mirror
Or he could spell it "Links" as in the text-mode browser.
"Don't install from untrusted sources" means "don't install things in your inbox, don't install things you downloaded of Gnutella, don't install random things on web pages".
Yeah, blah blah blah, getting something off Versiontracker is a calculated risk, and download-only distribution of commercial software doesn't guarantee someone hasn't hacked the d/l server.
But.
I know for a fact there are people in the Mac user base that install EVERY GODDAMN APP, just to see what happens. It's like they have some script to get the Versiontracker RSS feed and install every time it updates (then they bitch about it on the VT forum area). Most people I know don't wait a day for the early adopters to install patches. And so on, and so on. This is the sort of behavior that's common in the Mac community, and it's as foolish and dangerous as the Joe Sixpack install-the-screensaver-in-the-inbox behavior.
The modern computing reality requires a scratch monkey. That's just the way it is. Those who are about to install potentially untrusted software, we salute you.
If you can't afford a scratch monkey, just wait a couple days and read MacFixIt.com.
I have a number of games on my PS2. I fail to see what that has to do with Mac OS X privilege escalation via installer packages.
1. If you're sitting at the box, you might be able to 0wnz0r it. Same as for Linux, BSD, and Windows.
2. Regular folk should only install software from reasonably trusted sources.
I would assume that second point would be clear, given 10 years of watching Windows users open every last attachment that arrives in their inbox, while we sit at our Macs and laugh, but something tells me, probably not.
"Loud enough to cause hearing damange" is a *feature*.
open up a blank tab in safari and type:
x-man-page://some_command
where some_command is the command you want to see. I get a man page in a terminal. In fact for any given URL registered on my box, I get the Right Thing(tm) happening.
I use the Default App pref pane (http://www.rubicode.com/Software/) and thus have pretty fine control over what happens when various URLs are clicked/activated. Well, I can't make new ones, something about the craptacular IE vestiges that control URLs by default, maybe, I'm not sure; but it seems trivial to get around this.
See many other posts, the complaints are spurious at best, and their motive seems highly disingenuous (Apple has the #1 player and the #1 music service, and doesn't do business with CNet, a noted PC-centric company).
I mean, 6 hours of battery life, OK... last time I flew more than 6 hours, I could plug things into things. Let's see CNet bash some laptops for not providing 20 hours of battery life, eh?
Jogging? Whatever, man. I can't make mine skip if I try. See other posts... it's a spurious argument.
Expensive? Yes but so are many other nice things. No one complains about a $500 video card. I mean, to CNet that's a -1 of 10 thing at worst, and easily explained away by framing a review with the "ultimate gaming machine" or similar moniker. Face it, nice things are expensive. Yay, capitalism.
The DAT thing? Again, it's for listening to music.. I'm not aware Apple ever marketed it - or even mentioned - other audio applications for the device. That's like complaining you can't store high-res audio on a Palm Pilot.
Choice in online music stores? OK, half credit for having a point, but WMA is not choice any more than Fairplay... but Fairplay lets me use my purchased music reasonably, whereas all current WMA solutions are highly restrictive.
Flaws, please.. There's no pleasing some people.
Billg will write Perl scripts with vim before CNet ever, ever releases an article bashing a Windows operating system or mainstream PC.
Sure, they're "fair and balanced", I saw them give something a 7 once.
1. Apple hasn't partnered with Cnet to sell their device via click-through, resulting in less revenue for CNet from the apparent #1 player.
2. Were Apple to increase in marketshare as a result of 1)the #1 portable music device and 2)the #1 online music store, we'd have to have people cover it more, potentially resulting in less coverage of Microsoft-based products.
3. Anyone can find something wrong with anything, and I have, and since I work at CNet and you don't, you have to listen to me.
4. Microsoft creates standards, not Apple. If Apple creates standards, or supports ones not approved by billg, we'll be back in the chaos of the 80's and early 90's. I can't go back to installing WinSock! I can't!! Buy WMA devices, please!
5. Ha ha, sucker, thanks for the ad impressions. Coming up next: 5 reasons why you shouldn't use Linux, Mac OS X, and/or Mozilla!
http://biz.yahoo.com/djus/031106/1251001388_1.html
Nope. Just a rumor. Move along.
Panther installs and runs fine on my B&W G3, upgraded to G4 w/ Sonnettech and Radeon 7k. I'm pretty sure if something happened and I called Apple Support they'd laugh in my face, but until then, it's golden.
For many people email spam is largely transparent; I have a high-speed, unmetered connection (cable modem) and anti-spam protection (Apple Mail.app) so in my email, I see virtually no spam.
However the site that I run is hosted on MovableType through a commercial host. I have a metered limit on database queries and bandwidth. Excessive blog comment spamming could end up costing me money!
A new version of MT-Blacklist comes out today. Use it!
Nice plug, and all, but how exactly does it do anything to stop spam posted via HTTP to my MovableType installation?
Don't hate the playa, hate the game.
You must look at this from a realistic perspective.
1. The major record labels - meaning the people who control the content - will never release their "property" without DRM. If Apple wants to provide music online, it must do so at the whim of the content "owners". Hence, DRM. Otherwise iTMS is Napster v1, and we all know how that turned out.
As a matter of opinion, I find 'Fairplay' or whatever it is Apple calls its DRM method to be quite fair, to me. I can play all my music on my computers (laptop, desktop, work desktop) and devices (rev1 iPod), burn CDs, and so forth. I've been using iTMS since its inception, and have no complaints.
2. Apple has to balance their costs and resources, and the resources of their paying customers. Sure we all want uber-high-bitrate encodings. Remember that Apple has to push out all that data, and ensure the highest-possible success rate. I also assume they pay for their bandwidth, like everyone else. Moreover, many of their customers are probably still on dialup. In order to work, the experience has to be as close to instant as technologically possible. Like all things in technology, it's a balance. Until your uber-bitrate song fits in under a meg, it went with what it had that fit its requirements and needs.
Again, as a matter of opinion: P2P blows, people lie, allow bad rips, disconnect halfway through (mom's coming! quick, disconnect!), whatever.
3. The notion that one day this will all go away is a very fair criticism. So do the smart thing: burn to audio CD. You aren't prohibited (provided you don't try to turn that shiny G5 into a duplication studio). And getting around the DRM by re-encoding isn't all that hard (google it). iTunes enforces no DRM on user-ripped material, as WMP did at one point (could be turned off, IIRC). DRM applies only to content it re-sells.
1. Microsoft now has to spend as much of its time competing against itself as it does everyone else. (Quote: "With each version of Office it gets harder for Microsoft to move customers up," said Michael A. Silver, vice president and research director at the research and advisory firm Gartner Inc.)
DUH. Pretty much everyone admits this. If they never EOL'd anything, people would probably just stay on NT4 with Office 97 (assuming it works for them).
2. Microsoft thinks it offers more advanced, and usually better products, and offers metrics to prove those points.
DUH. In other news, Linux organizations (along with "grass-roots" sites like Slashdot) offer counter-points and different metrics of performance, value, and success.
In 10 words or less, "Microsoft practices marketing, others offer rebuttal."
How's the new Office if you're a home user with small email volume? Is it a compelling upgrade?
I'm terribly sorry, but you're wrong.
First, SETI must "play by the rules". It cannot point to government conspiracies and grainy photos as "proof" of ETI. It has so far turned up bupkis, precisely for this reason.
Second of all, are you saying the Drake Equation is crap? That there's simply nothing out there?
Read "The Borderlands Of Science" by Michael Shermer for further discussion about SETI and what sets it apart from the frothing conspiracy fools. In short, SETI is a shot in the dark, and based on a premise for which there is no proof - life on other worlds - but it is done in the same way we discovered germs or broke the sound barrier, by adhering to scientific principles.
First, and slightly OT, but that screen shot makes it look like I had better plan on a 19" monitor or greater. It was a tiny screen cap but the proportions of title bar to window contents make me think Microsoft has given up on the notion that a 15" screen should be usable. (See Also: Visual Studio.NET)
Anyway, this who "can't forward" thing might have nice side effects. I'd love it if documents on the hard drive could be flagged "do not forward", so my dad would stop pestering me about "what if I get a virus and it sends my Quicken files?"
This functionality was created to appease corporate America (to stop things ending up on InternalMemos.com, among other things) but it might have positive side effects for the home user.
..no one is posting any hard data, any more than he is. This post references actual numbers, but other than "what a freaking liar/what a misinformed idiot" no one is offering proof on the matter.
Smart playlists are worth it. Managing huge playlists is better, IMHO, in iTunes than any other player. If you have TONS of MP3, iTunes wins, once you get into its playlist management stuff hardcore.
:)
I don't ever use visualizations; I like to listen to music, not watch it.
As far as shade mode, Apple seems to have decided that iconifying is the way to go. On a Mac, you can control it via the Dock menu and numerous 3rd-party plugins, which is for all practical purposes the same as WinAmp windowshade mode (whence last I used it, anyway). Synergy is an excellent menu extra for controlling iTunes.
Because of differences in UI philosophy, you can't get the "full" experience on Windows, and on a Mac it's the little things that matter, sometimes.
But from a scientific perspective, there is a strong correlation between The Power Of Positive Thinking(tm) and well-being.
You may have terminal cancer, but if you're thinking positive, you're more likely to: exercise, eat right, abstain from things like smoking and drinking, all that stuff. Moreover your body is more likely to produce its own happy enzymes and chemicals (endorphins, etc) than when you're depressed and morose (most likely because you're moving around, eating right, etc).
HOW you achieve this state of positive nature is up to you. As it happens, many people feel better as a result of prayer; and not prayer alone, but the sense of community and belonging that comes with it. Church gets you out of the house; you meet new people, who you probably identify with; you abstain from risky behavior.
Is it the force of God that helps, really? Well like you say, if it was conclusive, who needs faith? But for an secular atheist like me, I say "keep up with the faith", because no matter what you pray to, it almost certainly isn't going to harm. The fact is, it often helps. It may not cure cancer, but it may make living tolerable.
now, if only we can get a Linux port of iTunes
Well, the awful brushed metal appearance has been a GTK theme for as long as I can remember... Smart Playlists are essentially a kind of `select` statement.. and Rendezvous is an open standard with implementations on Linux.
All you're missing is the actual store/Fairplay encryption stuff. Maybe one day they'll release that?
You linked to NYT without the usual disclaimer, you insensitive clod! Now I'm all traumatized!
I'm so glad that someone FINALLY had the balls to call The Steve on his evil marketing ploy. How dare he try to claim that Apple was somehow better, when every Slashdotter knows it's not!
(He won't give us the source for Aqua, see. We installed Red Hat the other day and are therefore qualified to fix all the bugs.)
At any rate: I just wish Apple would go away and stop competing. Trying to improve their hardware and software - and then selling it with such outrageous distortions - is bad, and hurts the industry. It really hurt my ego to think that some Photoshop dork has a better computer than I do. We can' t have that. Everyone knows Apple sucks. Er, suX0rs.
Benchmarks, really! Everyone knows they're crap. ATI had the balls to claim theirs was faster, when everyone knows nVidia rules!!!1! (Or was it the other way around? I forget.) As soon as the benchmarks said nVidia was faster, I threw that piece of crap ATI out of my machine and got the newest GeForce.
*Sigh*
Apparently you've never wanted to play your music on any non-apple product without first expanding your files to 12x their original size, and then possibly having to re-compress them to another format.
Burning an audio CD from AAC is hardly a chore in iTunes. I trust you've used it?
I also imagine you've never had to deal with losing a hard disk full of all those precious songs and having to redownload and re-license them for your new machine because you can't just copy them over.
I call bullshit again. First of all, keeping regular backups is part of commonly accepted good computing practices. If you can't do that, it's hardly apple's fault. In this KB article - here - they tell you outright to backup your stuff.
Moreover: "redownload"? That's odd. In the same KB article, it says:
(emphasis mine)
Has Apple given you special dispensation for a hard drive crash, or are you just lying?
Second, I'm not sure what version of iTunes you're using, but when I relicensed my songs, it was as easy as entering my iTMS info in the little dialog. Boom, the machine is now licensed.
I won't debate on sound quality; people who have decided AAC sucks simply won't change their minds. My feeling it, it could be better, and eventually it will be. I will also ignore the implicit accusation that I'm somehow stupid, because my ear finds AAC acceptable.
Lastly, "the rest of us"? Provide solid numbers on this boycott, please.
Programmers know UI based on what they do as programmers.
Programmers need the 80-bazillion options Visual Studio requires, because Visual Studio is a tool for making other tools.
On the other hand, users don't need all those options (at least, for the average user). Users want a hammer, not a combination forge-lathe-grinder with optional fiberglass extruder.
The argument is constantly made, "What about 'power users' and people who really do need extra functionality?". Fine, OK: put that stuff "under the hood" and document its location and functionality. But don't put in a user config dialog with 27 tab groups, 40 options per tab, with an 'Advanced' button on each one.
In fairness, there's less and less of this. Windows programmers are starting to understand the value of simplicity, just like Mac programmers are starting to understand the value of "power user" options (the `defaults` command, for example).